CHAPTER VII
The astonishing collapse of Spurlock created a tableau of short duration. Brendon told him the name of a distant restaurant and sprang in by her side. Gosse cursed him finely, of course, but there was nothing he
could do. She pushed. “Who is the tenant of these rooms?” he inquired. You go cheer him up. They were really very fine and
abundant, with a blaze of perennial sunflowers behind them. ‘Say it. ‘He told me everything, if you mean Gerald. One marked difference
between the poor outcast, who, oppressed by poverty, and stung by shame, had
sought temporary relief in the stupifying draught,—that worst "medicine of a
mind diseased,"—and those of the same being, freed from her vices, and restored
to comfort and contentment, if not to happiness, by a more prosperous course of
events, was exhibited in the mouth. The great heart of the world beats only where men and
women are gathered together. "
"You have made no such arrangements as will compromise me, I hope, Sir
Rowland?" said Wild, hastily. When he comes he will do that raid of the pantechnicons
the justice it deserves; he will picture the orderly evening scene about the
Imperial Legislature in convincing detail, the coming and going of cabs and
motor-cabs and broughams through the chill, damp evening into New Palace
Yard, the reinforced but untroubled and unsuspecting police about the entries of
those great buildings whose square and panelled Victorian Gothic streams up
from the glare of the lamps into the murkiness of the night; Big Ben shining
overhead, an unassailable beacon, and the incidental traffic of Westminster, cabs,
carts, and glowing omnibuses going to and from the bridge. ‘But this is altogether a chance of the luckiest. Melusine’s heart
ached for him, but she had to force him on.
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